[iateanapple]

> Slaves built a huge part of the economy for free and americans benefit from that work for which they were not compensated

That’s almost certainly not the case.

Any economic gains from slavery were more than wiped out by the civil war.

[sumedh]

> Any economic gains from slavery were more than wiped out by the civil war.

Does that mean white Americans and Black Americans were on economically equal after the civil war?

[iateanapple]

> Does that mean white Americans and Black Americans were on economically equal after the civil war?

Where are you going with this line of questioning?

They aren’t economically equal now in 2020.

[x86_64Ubuntu]

He's saying that if the economic gains where wiped out, then blacks and whites should have had equal economic standing after the war. But we all know that didn't happen, which is why he posed that question.

[7sigma]

No, it is the case and is amply documented. Slavery helped propel the american economy to become an industrial powerhouse

https://www.vox.com/identities/2019/8/16/20806069/slavery-ec...

Even if it was the case that the civil war wiped out the gains from slavery, it doesn't change the case for reparations as well as the other injustices that were being committed are are still being committed to this day